Tigers@taddy

 Tigers have enjoyed another fun afternoon exploring different elements of the circus. Today, we broadened our range of circus skills by learning about tight-rope walking then exploring and practising this to develop our skills. 

 Today, Y2s enjoyed a creative maths lesson that was designed to embed their recent learning about fractions and create a memorable experience to refer back to.  We have been learning about numerators and denominators and we decided that a denominator sounded like a baddie and a numerator like a superhero.  The children were split into groups and designed their own superhero or baddie mask. Numerators covered their masks in numbers and denominators divided their masks into sections.  We discussed that superheroes (numerators) always come out on top. Baddies (denominators) always end up on the bottom.  I drew shapes on the board and the denominators noted down how many equal parts I split it into (or how many people there were for them to capture). The numerators noted down how many of those parts I shaded (or how many of the people they managed to save). Together, they came together to show the fractions. On the final go, the numerators managed to save the ‘whole’ world.

 On Tuesday, Tigers headed to the school library to find non-fiction books about wolves. They then found as many facts that could and wrote them down!

 This afternoon, the children did some research into the Circus Maximus from Roman times. They were excited to learn about the origins of the circus being in chariot racing. They found some great facts and worked in teams to present these as a fact sheet. 

 Today, Year 1s began to look at arrays, using the vocabulary of  ‘rows’ and ‘columns’. We started off by making arrays with Mini Cheddars and discussing how many cheddars were in each row/column (then choosing to eat either a row or a column). The children then followed instructions to make their own arrays with finger painting.